Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sinners

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Autumn Durald Arkapaw wins Best Cinematography for Sinners

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Ludwig Göransson wins Best Music (Original Score) for Sinners

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Ryan Coogler wins Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for Sinners

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YOU‘VE BEEN HERE BEFORE On January 6, 2017, 71-year old Bernard Gore was spotted pacing back and forth in front of the Chanel store at the Westfield Bondi Junction Mall in Sydney Australia. After doing a little shopping, he ...

Since the teaser trailer for Backrooms is out I thought I'd share a piece I wrote a while ago. leila-taylor.ghost.io/youve-been-h...

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

Just making sure @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social see this

Absolutely! 💋

YES!!!

Just skipping down Bourbon St. in NOLA crying and wanting to shout at total strangers “He won!” ❤️❤️❤️ @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Large columned mausoleum marked with RICE. Bouquets of flowers, notes, and tokens cover the steps in front of the mausoleum door.

Got a Lift after visiting Anne Rice’s final resting place. Turns out my driver was also a location scout for The Mayfair Witches. I love New Orleans.

Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune & Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colgate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre

The 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far…

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Banner showing cartoon-style haunted home, announcing the availability of the Halloween Special podcast episode from Closer To Home.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

🏠 Why do some buildings just feel somehow wrong?
🎃 Why are some houses just plain spooky?
👻 What do horror movies say about our anxieties at home?
🏛️ Is Birmingham haunted by the ghost of Telly Savalas?

All of these questions and more, with our guest @leilataylor.bsky.social.

We’re excited about our next episode with the amazing @leilataylor.bsky.social.

There is also some carving to be done…

NAYLAND BLAKE | Matthew Marks Gallery Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Nayland Blake , the next exhibition in his galleries at 522 and 526 West 22nd Street. For decades, Nayland Blake has made vital contributions to contemporary a...

If you want to see my current show, and can't make it to New York, you can get a look here:

The cover of Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread, by Leila Taylor. It's red and depicts a black Victorian-style house both upright and reversed.

Anyway, I loved what this book had to say about Gray Gardens -- among other things. Highly recommend @leilataylor.bsky.social's latest.

For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #98 Cloudy with a chance of curious

Come get a tiny bit weird! With a mention to @leilataylor.bsky.social 's awesome book Sick Houses!

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Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures The primatologist gained scientific acclaim for her work with chimpanzees and then later used her fame to champion conservation.

Jane Goodall died on Wednesday at 91 after a life spent revolutionizing the study of primates and then bringing her global fame to the cause of conservation.

Here are snapshots from her life and career.

Grey cat with yellow eyes poking her head out of a red shopping bag.

Also I got a cat! Introducing Miss Purrleen Mouse aka Mousie. She's really into this bag from Marshall'shjgewo(
Ko9p0... that was her walking across my laptop. As I was saying she really loves this bag.

Book covers: "In Open Contempt" by Irvin Weathersby Jr., "Sick Houses" by Leila Taylor, and "Defiant Acts" by James Stewart III. Rally Reading Series. Pete's Candy Store, Oct.2nd, 7pm

So excited to be reading with some excellent company at @rallyreading.bsky.social‬ This Thursday at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes, in conversation w/ Leila Taylor | Astoria Bookshop Books of all kinds for readers of all ages, located in central Astoria, Queens. Established 2013.

Dears! We have an amazing lineup of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION tour stops starting next week! We begin @astoriabookshop.bsky.social on release day, 9/30 with the inimitable @leilataylor.bsky.social! RSVP here, NYC! 🖤
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9/30! Launch Day! Join us at the lovely @astoriabookshop.bsky.social where we'll be in conversation with one of our favorite authors, @leilataylor.bsky.social, so you can get AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC signed at the same time as Leila's latest, SICK HOUSES, which makes an amazing pairing:
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Maru the Box-Loving Cat, Once the Most Viewed Animal on YouTube, Dies at 18 Maru the cat, a Scottish Fold feline, died at the age of 18 following a decline in health and a cancer diagnosis. The feline is famous for squeezing into boxes, antics that were documented in popular ...

A tragedy has occurred today.

Please, let us mourn one of our best, taken from us too soon.

Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-o...

Trump criticises Smithsonian over Drexciya-inspired Afrofuturism exhibition The White House listed the exhibition as an example of "anti-American propaganda" for its depiction of an Afrofuturist utopia populated by the descendants of slaves

I never thought I’d see his name and Drexcyia in the same sentence but apparently even imagining a world where the slave trade never happened is un-American.

It’s opening day at Twisted Spine, NYC’s first horror bookstore, and the line is all the way down the block! Faith in humanity restored. 🖤📚🦇

@leilataylor.bsky.social Sick Houses is so freaking insightful, witty, cutting, deeply researched and I cannot put it down. I love this book!

Darkly by Leila Taylor: 9781912248544 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats unde...

Starting Wednesday season 2 reminded me (bc I do think an aesthetically amazing show that didn’t have bad politics is possible, but probably not with Tim Burton) of @leilataylor.bsky.social’s amazing book, “Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609185...